By John McCort In the last few years most liberal preachers have become unwilling to discuss institutionalism in public debate. Those few who are still willing to defend their beliefs have taken a very strange position. They will not sign their names to a proposition that names a specific institution. They will not, for example, specifically …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 22
2 Cor. 9:13
By John McCort In the last 25 years there has been quite a bit of discussion over whether the church can render benevolent assistance to non-Christians out of the church treasury. Our institutional brethren have long defended the practice of general, unlimited benevolence. They use such passages as Gal. 6:10, Jas. 1:27, Matt. 25:36 to defend …
Biblical Predestination
By Mike Willis Having rejected the Calvinist doctrine of predestination and election, we now propose to consider what the Bible actually does teach is predestined and what the Bible actually teaches about election. That the Bible actually does teach on these subjects is apparent from a cursory consideration of some of the following passages: And we …
Bible Basics: Approved in Christ
By Earl Robertson What a heart-warming statement! No doubt it is the very thing all lovers of the Lord, want to hear. Paul wrote to the Romans and singled out one brother who obviously had stood the test of faith, saying, “Salute Apelles approved in Christ” (Rom. 16:10). We know not what his trial of faith …